During Expedition Landschapsextracten Satellietgroep & De Onkruidenier together with farmers, experts and audiences explore the impact of salt of the Waterland Flood of 1916 in the landscape.

Untill a hunderd years ago Amsterdam was on the shores of the Zuiderzee, protected for tides and salt water intrusions by dikes along the IJ. In 1916 the dike at Schellingwoude broke. Salt seawater flooded the landscape and infuenced lives and environment. This flood instigated the building of the Afsluitdijk and Zuiderzee became IJsselmeer.

After hunderd years, can we still find the traces of salt in the landscape of Waterland? In the soil, the water, the plants, the naratives? Can we tast the salt of the Zuiderzee?

VOORDEKUNST

Would you like to taste the salt of Waterland Flood?You can contribute now to this project with your donation, book one of the bike expeditions and visit the Landschapsbank at Over het IJ Festival. Support the project and soon you'll be able to taste the salt of the Waterland Flood!https://www.voordekunst.nl/projecten/4616-expeditie-landschapsextracten

EXPEDITION LANDSCHAPSEXTRACTEN

Join us for the bike expedition and discover what lies beneath the surface of the landscape!Explore with artists Ronald Boer, Jonmar van Vlijmen and Francois Lombarts and their mobile labs the various landscape extracts. Be sure to bring along a bike.

Dates: 9, 10, 16 en 17 juli, 15:00 - 18:00

Tickets: € 15 pp

Book your tickets: www.overhetij.nl

EXHIBITION LANDSCHAPSBANK LANDSCHAPSEXTRACTEN

Explore the edible archive of Waterland

All findings of the mobile labs and expeditions will be presented at the Landschapsbank during Over het IJ Festival at NDSM werf in Amsterdam. You can join us to explore and taste this edible archive of landscape extracts of Waterland.

Satellietgroep & De Onkruidenier develop the ongoing research on the Zandmotor, called The Waterpionier.Plants, animals and humans appropriate the new coastal landscape of the Zandmotor. The first concern for these pioneers is drinking water. On the Zandmotor there are no visible forms of fresh water. No rivers and no water taps, a dessert surrounded by the salty waters of the sea. Halotolerance is the ability of living organisms to adapt and survive in conditions with a high salt content. What can we learn from the ability of plants and animals to adapt and survive in a salty environment? Can humans evolve and become more Halo(salt)tolerant?Satellietgroep & De Onkruidenier collaborates with Dunea (Dune and Drinking Water) and NatureCoast to learn to understand the gradients of salinazation of the Zandmotor and Solleveld dunes.

Drilling the Zandmotor to reach the fresh water bubble. Photo: De Onkruidenier.

Harvesting fresh water at Zandmotor. Photo: Twien.

JUNE 18: SAND SONGS & CLIMATE PROOF

Be sure to join us on Saturday June 18 19:00-24:00 at Zandmotor for a taste of Dune Rose
liqueur with Dune Violets, specially prepared by De Onkruidenier! Please register in advance at manon@iiinitiative.org and we will inform you on the route (by bicycle, public transport or car) and what you need to know when visiting the Zandmotor. Program: www.iiinitiative.org/sandsongsLocation: Argusmast at Zandmotor, south of The HagueDresscode: Outdoor

CONNECTING TO YOU!

You can also contribute to the activities of Satellietgroep! Spread
the word or invite us for a presentation, research, collaboration or
exchange project. Satellietgroep works also on commissions. Feel free to
contact us at satellietgroep@gmail.com or browse our website www.satellietgroep.nl for ideas.

Artists collective Satellietgroep (The Hague, 2006) explores through
arts the social and ecological impact of the sea and coastal transitions
on cities, people, communities and environments, and vice versa the
influence of mankind on coastal transitions and climate change in The
Netherlands and abroad. Our aim is to enhance public and professional
awareness. Satellietgroep hosts artists in
residents for artistic fieldwork, collaborate with locals and experts and
develop new concepts and works that reflect the resilience of
coexistence of man and water, in past, present and future.

Long term projects are 'Badgast' - artist in residency program at The
Hague/Scheveningen (2009-2014), 'Now Wakes The Sea', the international
exchange residency program in collaboration with international cultural
partners (since 2012). Since 2014 Satellietgroep develops the first artistic research on the Zandmotor, the newest innovation on coastal protection called Building with Nature. In these programs artist in residencies are used as a research method to enable artists and scientists to do fieldwork and to work on site with local partners, coastal communities and experts in order to map out and research the current status of coastal transitions and to generate new narratives and perspectives. The programs function as an alternative source for collecting. New concepts and works are developed that we connect and contextualize with existing works for public events like traveling film festivals, exhibitions, workshops and presentations at expert conferences. Artist in residents are invited to critically explore and visualize the zones of coexistence of man and water and reveal different perspectives. By interconnecting coastal communities, arts and science we share local knowledge on global level to gain sustainable insights on coastal transitions that transcend local and national issues.